“A very dangerous sign for me…”

Slavoj Zizek wrote that in 2005 just prior to the election a popular BBC talk show sponsored a “who is the most hated person in Britain” contest. Tony Blair won this poll. One week later he was elected Prime Minister for the third time.

All that is Solid Melts into Air

“To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world—and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.”
Marshall Berman (1982)